The authority of the Scriptures does not depend on the decision of the church or the individual to validate it. To paraphrase the Westminster Confession, we receive it as the word of God because of what it is, not because of what we make of it.
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Related Authors: C. S. Lewis Isaac Newton Martin Luther Alan Watts Thomas Merton Rumi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe